Usless but interesting ....how many of you old timers started with original Large Advents?

I had some crappy speakers when I was playing around with crappy radios as a kid, and then I actually built a pair of crappy speakers. But when I was a sophomore or junior in high school circa '73-'74, I bought a Pioneer SA amp and a pair of Large Furniture Advents.  They are sitting next to me on the floor of my family room as I type.

About 15 years ago when my son finally vacated the basement and I turned it into a man cave/home theater, I went a little nuts and acquired stacked advents on the left and right, a pair for the center, a pair for the side and a pair for the rear. I've had professional musicians tell me it's a killer setup. I also bought a pair for my daughter and came across a beautiful pair for my living room. Like I said, I went a little nuts. This was all before price inflation set in and prices are double what they were new for speakers that need surrounds.

I have over the years listened to other speakers of course. Each time it seemed I would have to spend many multiples to get anything that sounded as good.

And go easy on that Old Timer talk. "Well into middle age" is the preferred nomenclature.

I started with the Large Advents in the 70,s before moving on to the Spendor BC1s after approx. 5 years. After that followed Acoustats, Shahinian Obelisks, Dynaudio Contours and finally to my current speakers, Martin Logan Vantages, about 10 years ago. The latter speakers are keepers.

My first set of speakers way back in time.  When I moved out of home, after college, my dad wouldn't let me take with me.  They sounded so good with his old Grundig reel to reel.

My younger brother has them now and still uses them.

Everyone had them back in the day.  We were into LOUD and they seldom broke, although a tweeter would go every now and then.

Stacked pairs were the cat's meow.  Interesting how today almost all high-end speakers are 6' tall.  Wonder where they got that idea (Magnepan) and how it is working out for them?

When I got my shop in 1973, I put a pair of Advents--thank you, Henry Kloss--you were the man back then!--on one of our good systems and got an instant education in how inaccurate they were when played next to our Tympani series of Maggies.

BUT, then I listened to EVERY OTHER SPEAKER in my shop and figured out that boxes were always going to be limiting to the music.  The electrostatics (Quads, RTR's (hybrid) and others were almost as good as the Maggies, but listening fatigue was fast and they were rather shrill and unbalanced to us.  The biggest joke and the one that had us laughing the most were the Bose 901 "direct reflecting" speakers.  They were removed from the store and returned the next day.  What a joke they were.

Anyway, education is a wonderful thing, and I had an opportunity not given to many as I had 30 different brands and various models in the shop.  The only boxes that were passable were the Fulton 80's and 100's.  I have not heard them in many years, but back then, they were several steps up from the Advents.

We loved the Advents in their day, and appreciated them at the time.  But you have to move on eventually, so glad we had them and glad they are gone now.

Cheers!

Large Advents were my first real speakers, mid 70's era. I blew a tweeter at some point in the 80'sand ended up with Polks somehow. Details are fuzzy. I held onto the Advents for years before selling the pair and the replacement tweeter about 8-10 years ago.